This seems to be based on C4 which apparently is an heir to UML.
I love UML.
I know that is not dominant sentiment so it might get downvoted.
I worked with UML over decades now.
I refuse to use Visio, Draw.io or PlantUML for that part.
I use a tool that knows UML and is constructed to quickly build UML diagrams.
Doing a Sequence diagram in draw io is something I find painful and slow.
My favorite tool is Visual Paradigm.
It has the best intelligence for quickly building diagrams.
It also features two way code generation.
You can get diagrams created from code, and you can modify
diagram to modify code.
From that you can get a lot of help (it is far from perfect) to create needed diagrams and also in maintaining them.
I have also used Sparx Enterprise Architect which is also very good.
In so far as creating higher level diagrams that Icepanel is most centered on, it should be greatly aided by a set of tools to discover and map artifacts in an automated manner.
Keeping diagrams up to date is a huge chore that it is nice to have help with.
Having to recode, my code, in a document for PlantUML is not something I could do either. There are some great tools for generating PlantUML diagrams and those are great.
We use some of that to generate certain diagrams automatically in our CI pipeline. When it is done running all diagrams are up to do date and placed in our documentation.
We use it to show each one of our microservices with a lot of data around then. And another one displays a lot of information about each of our container images.
I love UML.
I know that is not dominant sentiment so it might get downvoted.
I worked with UML over decades now.
I refuse to use Visio, Draw.io or PlantUML for that part. I use a tool that knows UML and is constructed to quickly build UML diagrams.
Doing a Sequence diagram in draw io is something I find painful and slow.
My favorite tool is Visual Paradigm. It has the best intelligence for quickly building diagrams.
It also features two way code generation.
You can get diagrams created from code, and you can modify diagram to modify code.
From that you can get a lot of help (it is far from perfect) to create needed diagrams and also in maintaining them.
I have also used Sparx Enterprise Architect which is also very good.
In so far as creating higher level diagrams that Icepanel is most centered on, it should be greatly aided by a set of tools to discover and map artifacts in an automated manner.
Keeping diagrams up to date is a huge chore that it is nice to have help with.
Having to recode, my code, in a document for PlantUML is not something I could do either. There are some great tools for generating PlantUML diagrams and those are great.
We use some of that to generate certain diagrams automatically in our CI pipeline. When it is done running all diagrams are up to do date and placed in our documentation.
We use it to show each one of our microservices with a lot of data around then. And another one displays a lot of information about each of our container images.
Took a while to get that setup right.